Divisions Widen Among Snowden's Supporters

Edward Snowden and His Father Spoke for the First Time Since Late May

By

Lukas I. Alpert

Updated Aug. 15, 2013 3:27 p.m. ET

MOSCOW—Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and his father spoke for the first time since late May early Thursday, going against the wishes of their lawyers and reflecting growing rifts among family and advisers of the fugitive leaker of U.S. surveillance documents.

Those disagreements include increasingly public bickering over the makeup of Mr. Snowden's legal defense team, and who has standing to speak for him,...